The Soviet-era killings of Jews makes it hard to sympathize with Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war despite knowing the aggressor. I remember the historical Soviet repressions, purges,
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and later antisemitic campaigns under Stalin that killed many Jews alongside millions of others.

Further, the Soviet KGB using Yasser Arafat created the myth of the Palestinian people. Soviet involvement was substantial and
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well-documented through funding, training, propaganda, and intelligence ties. After the 1967 Six-Day War and the humiliation of Soviet client states Egypt and Syria, the KGB under Yuri Andropov ramped up anti-Israel operations as part of a broader disinformation and
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1/ Earlier today, our Bitcoin engineering and security teams at Block began investigating reports of non-Bitkey wallets being drained. To proactively protect our customers, we began investigating immediately. Here’s what we found 🧵

2/ First, no Block products including @Bitkey are affected. But we want to protect everyone who has bitcoin in self-custody, so we continued to investigate.

@Bitkey 3/ Initially, only single sig wallets were affected, in a remote drain over an hour. The attack is likely ongoing and more wallets will be drained – including those with 25th word passphrases that are too weak, and multisig setups with weak key generation for more than one key.

During an interview on July 24, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told commentator Laura Loomer that the number of synagogues, tragedy monuments, and related laws in Ukraine serve as "the answer to Putin."
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Zelenskyy made this statement while discussing how Ukraine preserves the memory of Jewish tragedies and counters Russian disinformation regarding religious freedom and alleged persecution.
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He contrasted Ukraine's actions with Putin's false image of being an ally to Jews, noting that Russia actually persecutes Jewish communities.
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Anthropic bought millions of books, cut the spines off, scanned the pages, and threw the originals away

After Vatican II the Netherlands did something similar: entire seminary and monastery libraries were discarded

Most Dutch people don’t know this 🧵

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This was a quiet cultural genocide.

Newspaper: 'Seminariy Library Given to Garbage Man'

Collections carefully built over more than a century were sold off to other continents, transferred, or simply thrown out as the old theology and philosophy was dismantled

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In Amsterdam the Catholic Theological High School ordered six containers and placed them along the canal

At night they threw all the pre-Vatican II books into them

Junkies and prostitutes later emptied the containers and walked home loaded with heavy old volumes, hoping to sell them

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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A comment on the Fauci problem

Anthony Fauci might have done harm, but let’s be realistic, he could not have done anything without the cooperation, the collusion, of a lot of other people. The proof? Florida.
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@rlefraim Florida chose to make its own decisions based on the real science. Other states chose to adopt every policy based on fear that came out of Washington, DC.

So, if one chooses to demonize Fauci, fine, but only if you also take a look and demonize those state politicians,
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@rlefraim those governors, those local politicians that chose to impose draconian closures and who invented excuses to favor certain types of businesses and groups over others.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The major oil companies issued an announcement that sometime soon in August oil prices will be higher than ever before.
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@rlefraim This is an effort of the giant international oil companies, acting like an organized cartel, BP, Exxon, Shell, Aramco, Total, to artificially push up prices starting with Brent crude, not because of the Iran situation, and
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@rlefraim not because of Russia-Ukraine, as there is an oversupply of oil currently on the international markets,

But specifically to influence the elections in the US and other nations that take place this fall between September and December.
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🔥 Zelensky to Russia: Ukraine's long-range campaign is accelerating.

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🔥 40% of Moscow's gasoline supply hit

Rosneft's key refinery supplying the Moscow region is offline.

The plant (capacity ~11–12 million tons/year) provides roughly 40% of the capital’s gasoline and a major share of its diesel.

Repairs may take six months or longer.

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🔥 Ukraine strikes another pillar of Russia's fuel sector

A Ukrainian drone strike forced the shutdown of the CDU-5 unit at Lukoil's Perm refinery (~13 million tons/year), taking 34% of the plant's refining capacity offline and further tightening Russia's fuel supply.

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Jillian Segal says her plan is to “expand” IHRA training “at scale” — to all govt depts & all businesses in the country — & be driven by a new taxpayer funded body - which she reveals is already in the works.😳
What the hell is going on?

Date of hearing - 30 July, yesterday.

Segal also said this is being rolled out in the AFP, & stated what she expects leaders of business and govt depts/agencies to do once they receive their IHRA training

Segal “Spread it down through the organisation”

Like a virus?

She also said she wants this rolled out at all schools, claiming teachers and students need to also be trained,
and she said they are already doing this in the US and some European countries.

There’s already pilot programs in place. It’s really happening….

BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.

BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.

BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.

Apple won’t say this out loud…
But your settings are draining your battery faster than they should.

I tested this myself.

Same iPhone.
Same usage.

Battery jumped from 6 hours → 10 hours just by fixing a few settings.

No new phone.
No paid apps.
No tricks.

Here’s exactly what I changed 👇

1/ First thing, check who's the main culprit.

Settings → Battery

Scroll down and see which app is consuming your battery the most.

Usually it's not the app you use a lot. But the problematic app is the one running hidden in the background.

2/ Background App Updates.

This feature ain't useful but it's on by default.

Settings → General → Background App

Updates → Turn it off

The whole point is that every app on your phone "updates itself" even if you haven't opened it.

Instagram downloads the vid, Shopee updates the prices.

Why, you ask? You can still open the app manually anyway.

We now finally have the story of the behind-the-scenes crisis management by Peter Daszak and Shi Zhengli regarding RaTG13 (and other unpublished viruses).🧵👇

The story begins in May 2021, when yours truly posted Yu Ping's 2019 WIV thesis on Twitter. It listed, among other things, "Ra4991" with lower spike identity to SARS (75.4%) than the published RaTG13 (76.6%).

About a month later, on 23 June 2021, Clare Thomas (Nature Senior Editor) emails Shi Zhengli, saying she had been "contacted by someone" but had "not looked at the thesis itself," and requests clarification regarding the discrepancy.

2 days later, Clare reminds Shi again that they have an obligation to look into the apparent discrepancy.

(There were, and still are, many other anomalies surrounding RaTG13.)

2 more days later, Shi Zhengli clarifies to the Nature editor that the discrepancy was an artifact of using different bioinformatics software: the 2020 Nature paper used NCBI's BLASTp, while the 2019 thesis used Mafft and Bioedit.

She also notes that the thesis was under "embargo", and she "doesn't know why this thesis was uploaded" and "misused by the conspiracy people."

"Conspiracy people" meant us. But how that supposedly embargoed thesis found its way to Twitter is another story. I can't tell it yet because sharing it could put people in China at risk.

In any case, we had also independently reached the same conclusion that the RaTG13-Ra4991 discrepancy was explained by differences in bioinformatics, thanks to @EtaitLife, who had reverse-engineered, reconciled the differences and replicated the results by December 2021.

So far so good.
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You all gonna park some cars at Willowbrook Communication Police then ?? 😁👍👍

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Who is Schrödinger's putin? A man who can end the war tomorrow, yet also can't

[my latest op-ed in a 🧵thread]

Few medieval figures loom larger in 🇷🇺’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince who founded an outpost on the Moskva River from which russian empire arose
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But the man moscow claims as a forefather is buried not in 🇷🇺, but in 🇺🇦
Dolgorukiy’s ambition was to rule Kyivan Rus from its true center – let the name be a hint.
He died there as Grand Prince in 1157 and was laid to rest at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which Russia struck on June 15, setting a UNESCO World Heritage site ablaze
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The barbarism of the attack crystallizes the very contradiction in which Russia's war is rooted. Putin oscillates between insisting Ukraine does not exist and dismissing it as a fabricated state, yet Moscow's own origin story keeps leading back to Kyiv.
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